Top news of the week: 08.12.2022.
Finland’s Green Party now supports genetic engineering in agriculture
In a landmark shift, Finland’s Green Party unanimously adopted a positive stance on genetic engineering in agriculture at the party council’s meeting last weekend. Until now, Green parties ...
Pesticides are critical to grow food, but concerns are widespread. Here’s why they are overblown – and a look at the cutting-edge RNA genetic tools designed to reduce health risks even more
For farmers to supply society with food, fiber and fuel they must battle pests. There is no magic, natural way to avoid this issue. The “enemies” include insects, mites, fungi, bacteria, ...
Want A Biotech Lab? This Start Up Is Revolutionizing The Bioeconomy With On Demand Lab Space.
Dupla Bio provides modular biolabs on-demand, providing decentralized and affordable lab space across the United States with a single purpose in mind - energizing the bioeconomy to create a ...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Raises Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Target on Path to Net-zero Emissions
Company to achieve 2030 Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target of 30% ahead of schedule; increases ambition to 50% reduction, aligned with 1.5˚C pathwayWALTHAM, ...
Pharma and healthcare leaders discuss the innovations to fix our health system at Pharma Integrates 2022
London, United Kingdom, 5th December 2022 / Sciad Newswire / With the UK’s health system under pressure, leaders and innovators from across pharma and healthcare gathered at London Tower ...
We won’t stop biodiversity loss without transforming food systems
Moving away from industrial agriculture must be at the heart of a COP15 biodiversity protection agreement
‘Without nature, we have nothing’: UN chief sounds alarm at key UN biodiversity event
The UN’s key biodiversity conference, COP15, began on Tuesday in Montreal, Canada, where negotiators will set new targets and goals aimed at arresting the alarming destruction of nature, ...
Developing ‘synthetic’ food for a Mars journey could revolutionize food systems on Earth
In Dinner on Mars, Evan Fraser and co-author Lenore Newman — Canada Research Chair in Food Security and the Environment at the University of the Fraser Valley — delved into the agricultural ...